Example Quotes

“But I know, with all the certainty of my being, that Jesus has no interest in my doing this. To just say, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I'm your biggest fan," causes him to stare at his watch, tap his feet, and order a double Glenlivet on the rocks with a twist. Fandom is of no interest to Jesus. What matters to him is the authentic following of a disciple. We all settle for saying, "Jesus," but Jesus wants us to be in the world who he is.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.”
― Marian Wright Edelman

“Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.”
― Francis of Assisi

“we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.”
― Plutarch, Moralia

“An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, CHOKI MOTOBU Original MMA Fighter

“A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It’s called being an example.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“I give away examples!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“...The happy Warrior... 'tis he whose law is reason; who depends upon that law as on the best of friends; whence, in a state where men are tempted still to evil for a guard against worse ill, and what in quality or act is best doth seldom on a right foundation rest, he labors good on good to fix, and owes to virtue every triumph that he knows: who, if he rise to station of command, rises by open means; and there will stand on honorable terms, or else retire, and in himself possess his own desire; who comprehends his trust, and to the same keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; and therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait for wealth, or honors, or for worldly state; whom they must follow; on whose head must fall, like showers of manna, if they come at all:”
― William Wordsworth, Character of the Happy Warrior

“If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Tu se' lo mio maestro e 'l mio autore,
tu se' solo colui da cu' io tolsi
lo bello stilo che m'ha fatto onore.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Love is nothing more than an example of a emotion which is build on pressure.”
― Deyth Banger

“...[R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordingly actions of which perhaps the world has hitherto never given an example, the feasibility even if which might be very much doubted by one who founds everything on experience, are nevertheless inflexibly commanded by reason; that, for example, even though there might never yet have been a sincere friend, yet not a whit the less is pure sincerity in friendship required of every man...”
― Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

“It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am. And my goal is that at those most precarious of moments, what you will see is Jesus holding you through my tears.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I can tell you who I am, but I’d rather have you watch who I am.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My Dad did nothing to elevate himself, for selflessness was a trait within himself that compelled him to live outside of himself. And while I doubt that he ever grasped the immensity of his selflessness as it was unleashed into the lives of his children, that forever unleashed life within us that is now being unleashed outside of us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“More bitta of... insider than outsider as for style of this here example of dubstep.”
― Deyth Banger

“I hear many young women say they can't find well-known feminists with whom they identify. That can be disheartening, but I say, let us (try to) become the feminists we would like to see moving through the world.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“What would Jesus do" is a good thing but it would be better if we did not leave it so open and asked What did Jesus Do?”
― Chuck Bridges

“If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Interestingly enough, whenever I cite examples from superhero comic books in a lecture, my students never wonder when they will use this information in their "real life". Apparently they all have plans, post-graduation, that involve protecting the City from all threat while wearing spandex. As a law-abiding citizen, this notion fills me with a great sense of security, knowing as I do how many of my scientist colleagues could charitably be termed "mad".”
― James Kakalios, The Physics of Superheroes: Spectacular Second Edition

“Be the type of silence that screams by example.”
― T.F. Hodge

“I want to be a living example of YES to every dreamer the world told NO.”
― Carlos Wallace

“What all ethical theories critically lack, Christianity uniquely offers: the perfect, ethical example. Christians are not restricted solely to abstract principles for ethical conduct, because in Jesus we have a model for good living.”
― Klaus Issler

“I am just an strong example of tragedy in eyes of others.”
― Deyth Banger

“Are there so many words in the English language that we must somehow exhaust every single one of them in some blithering defense of some cherished opinion? Or, would it be far, far more prudent to simply shut up and live out that opinion in ways that the English language has no words describe?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Jambo kubwa unaloweza kuwafanyia wenzako ni mfano.”
― Enock Maregesi